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Posted by BethInAK on December 13, 2007, 9:06 pm
I am working on my lettuce edged sleeve for my pollyanna childs shirt and I
am not sure if I should lettuce edge the sleeve before sewing the sleeve
into a sleeve or lettuce around the circle after the sleeve is a sleeve?
thanks in advance.
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Posted by Kay Lancaster on December 14, 2007, 5:42 am
> I am working on my lettuce edged sleeve for my pollyanna childs shirt and I
> am not sure if I should lettuce edge the sleeve before sewing the sleeve
> into a sleeve or lettuce around the circle after the sleeve is a sleeve?
Is it going in flat, or set-in? If set-in, it'd be easier, imo, to do it
in the round. If going in flat, I'd probably lettuce flat.
Kay
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on December 14, 2007, 6:48 am
Kay Lancaster wrote:
>> I am working on my lettuce edged sleeve for my pollyanna childs shirt and I
>> am not sure if I should lettuce edge the sleeve before sewing the sleeve
>> into a sleeve or lettuce around the circle after the sleeve is a sleeve?
>
> Is it going in flat, or set-in? If set-in, it'd be easier, imo, to do it
> in the round. If going in flat, I'd probably lettuce flat.
>
> Kay
>
Think about the fabric (knit or woven?), the construction (flat or
round), and whether or not your serger has a free arm...
On knits and with no free arm I prefer to lettuce first after a flat
insertion of the sleeve.
On knits or wovens when I have the free arm, I like to lettuce in the
round after whatever construction suits the garment best.
--
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Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
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Posted by Karen Maslowski on December 14, 2007, 9:18 am
Kate (and anyone else with experience with this), have you had success
doing a lettuce edge in chiffon? I'm making a formal gown for Cotillion
next weekend, and am attempting to duplicate somewhat of the same look
as Helen Mirren's Oscar gown, the Christian LaCroix one with the lovely
chiffon skirt. Mine will not be anywhere near that elaborate (no need to
attempt to compete with the debs, after all), but I do want to try to
duplicate the hem, especially since it's chiffon, which is notoriously
tricky to hem.
Any and all suggestions welcome, and thanks in advance!
--
Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati
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Posted by on December 14, 2007, 3:53 pm
Karen Maslowski <"sewstorm at f u s e dot com"> wrote:
> Kate (and anyone else with experience with this), have you had success
> doing a lettuce edge in chiffon? I'm making a formal gown for Cotillion
> next weekend, and am attempting to duplicate somewhat of the same look
> as Helen Mirren's Oscar gown, the Christian LaCroix one with the lovely
> chiffon skirt. Mine will not be anywhere near that elaborate (no need to
> attempt to compete with the debs, after all), but I do want to try to
> duplicate the hem, especially since it's chiffon, which is notoriously
> tricky to hem.
>
> Any and all suggestions welcome, and thanks in advance!
>
Hemming chiffon is usually enough to send me past the chocolate stash to the
liquor cabinet. ;) What I have done in the past, and had it work very
well, was to use some tissue paper under the chiffon while I'm rolling the
edge. I didn't do a lettuce edge really; it wasn't stretched out. Just a
plain rolled hem on the serger. It worked very well. I just carefully tore
the tissue paper away when I was done. What I bet would work even better
is some thin strips of the clear water soluble stabilizer. The thing that
really torques me about trying to do this sort of thing on chiffon is that
the chiffon just frays away close to the edge. GRRRRR I also use a
slightly wider stitch than normal so I can get more of the stitching away
from the very edge of the chiffon. Not a HUGE stitch, but just a little
wider than normal.
Have you got some scraps?? Try first. See if it's worth cutting the
stabilizer. Oh, and a very fine needle. I think the last time I did
anything like this, I used a microtex needle.
Sharon
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and just annoys the
pig.
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